“Judging from the evidence available from depictions of daily life in tombs and in historical texts, the ancient Egyptians were just as enthusiastic about good food and generous hospitality as are their descendants today. Magda Mehdawy and Amr Hussein have done extensive research on the cultivation, gathering, preparation, and presentation of food in ancient Egypt and have developed nearly a hundred recipes that will be perfectly recognizable to anyone familiar with modern Egyptian food.
Beautifully illustrated with scenes from tomb reliefs, objects and artifacts in museum exhibits, and modern photographs, the recipes are accompanied by explanatory material that describes the ancient home and kitchen, cooking vessels and methods, table manners and etiquette, banquets, beverages, and ingredients. Traditional feasts and religious occasions with their own culinary traditions are described, including some that are still celebrated today. A glossary of ingredients and place names provides a useful guide to unfamiliar terms.”
On this day, 17 May 1965, in reaction to a general strike the right wing Bolivian military dictatorship declared a state of siege and launched an all-out war on the organised working class. They also passed a series of laws dismantling labour unions and calling up all Bolivians aged 19 to 50 into the service of the military. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1428348784016934/?type=3
Interviewer: Secretary Pompeo said that he has strong evidence that [the coronavirus] did come from the virology lab- and we’ve been reporting this every Sunday by the way, uh, from early on. You also said that you saw evidence. Can you tell us about this information?
Trump: No. No. But we have a lot of information and it’s not good.
This shit is on the television at night when millions of Americans eat dinner and accompanies them as they make their breakfast. And it’s straight up literal actual fake news. There is no evidence. Trump then more or less admits there is no evidence and says that wherever it came from, whether the lab or bats, it is still China’s fault. The interviewer goes on to ask, “China made a decision to let it escape its borders?” and Trump then says he thinks the virus most likely got out of control. The interviewer then brings up the comment of a senator who said China didn’t want “its economy to shrink 20% and the rest of the world’s to shrink by 2%” and brings up how there were Hong Kong protestors before the pandemic. The beauty of the fakeness of this news is that Trump doesn’t have to and frankly doesn’t even actually make the outrageous claim either that the virus came from a Chinese lab or that they loosed it on the world or that they manufactured it to stop protests. They can let the anchor make the accusatio s and Trump goes “ehhhhh who knows??"and the anchor, who sure seems like she knows and says bullseye authoritatively, damn near winks at the audience.
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